Automated breast masses segmentation in digitized mammograms

• Main Authors: Zhang, Han, Foo, Say Wei, Thng, Choon Hua, Krishnan, Shankar M.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90926; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4676
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, an automated segmentation method is proposed. The method is applied to the segmentation of breast masses in digitized mammograms and it operates on the whole mammograms instead of manually selected regions. Pixels with local maximum gray levels are flagged as seeds, fro...